Second Battle of Narvik
Video on the first Battle of Narvik: https://youtu.be/XSvn4uD8tjc
On April 13th 1940, the British battleship Warspite charged into the narrow waters off Narvik in Norway and attacked german destroyers anchored there. In just a few hours of battle, almost half of Germany’s entire remaining destroyer force was eliminated,
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Sources:
David Greentree & David Campbell, British Destoryer vs German Destroyer: Narvik 1940
Richard Petrow, The Bitter Years: The invasion and Occupation of
Denmark and Norway April 1940-May 1945 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974).
Corelli Barnett, Engage The Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War (London: Penguin, 1991)
James Holland, The War in the West – A New History Vol. 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 (kindle edition)
Henrik Lunde, Hitler’s Preemptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940. (kindle edition)
Earl Ziemke, German Northern Theater of Operations 1940-1945. (kindle edition)
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